Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 274

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(JAPANESE HYDROGEN INDUSTRY)
A handmade presentation album with 34 photographs illustrating the various production stages, different locations at the plant, and the business premises of the Japan Hydrogen Industry Company.
With modernist views of pyrite roasters, ammonia sulphate storage, an acid cooler, and CO converters, as well as multiple images depicting men at work in the plant. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5 1/2x4 1/2 inches (14x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, 2 per page, each with typed captions on rice paper, in Japanese and English, affixed on the opposite page. Oblong 4to, hand-printed decorative boards; double-tie binding. 1947

Additional Details